"It's really hard to get it......"

There is a small stream that originates from the mountains southwest of Chahe Town and flows out of the forest at the foot of the mountain. This creek nourishes a large number of living beings before it turns black, and after it turns black, it also nourishes other things.

At this time, the stream was red with blood. Following this large stream of blood, into the depths of the forest, which has claimed the lives of dozens of people, you can see a group of dire wolves lying on the ground from time to time.

At the source of the bloodstream, a behemoth full of knife wounds and arrow wounds fell twisted and fell to the glade. The elk, which could only easily break off small trees, fly dirt, and kill armed knights with a single blow with its antlers, could no longer rampage and open its psychedelic eyes on each of its front and back legs, and take the lives of others.

A man sat on a hill that held the carcasses of a dozen horses, holding a dried stalk of spices, listlessly watching the two moons rise from the treetops.

The moon was always bright, and the cloudless night was always as bright as day, but he had no intention of seeing the black stream that flowed gradually becoming clear, and stained red with the blood that flowed from the corpse mound.

He first muttered to himself, then closed his eyes and listened to the sound of swords and swords breaking through the air mixed with the sound of the wind, and the sound of people and monsters running, dodging, and attacking each other.

"If you don't get rid of the monster, and the wind blows in this forest soaking wet, we should all be infected with the wind and cold. He cried out with his eyes closed.

"Master, just give me two minutes!"

The fiery red-haired girl who said this stopped while running, threw out the chain sword in her hand like a whip, and the group of dire wolves running on her right side were unable to escape, and she hit both ends at once, and the chain sword instantly cut through their skin as hard as a rhinoceros.

"Hah, I'll be able to do it in a minute! Look closely, Mr. Finn. ”

Another blue-haired girl held the spell in her hand, and suddenly unleashed a powerful spell seal, freezing the dire wolves who had surrounded her and were about to pounce on her. Then she leaped forward, pointed the dagger in her hand at their eyeballs, and killed them with a single blow.

Finn who was sitting on the corpse mound just closed his eyes and shook his head, and lightly placed a magic seal on himself to dry his stinking and wet clothes.

As he was baking, the sound of battle in his ears gradually subsided, and Finn hurriedly opened his eyes. Light and agile as a leopard, he jumped from above to the two young female apprentices who were waiting in front of the elk monster's corpse.

"All your spirits, your spells can't even enter the door, and you really plan to learn from me to dry clothes. I'm not afraid to roast myself. ”

The two of them, who thought they would be praised, froze with a slight smile, and each slowly put down the left hand that had pinched the Fa Duel, waiting for the master in front of them to dry their clothes.

"Do any of you remember how I taught you the precautions of practice?" Finn asked them, baking.

The red-haired girl hesitated for a moment and replied: "If you encounter a strong enemy, you should make the most of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, if you are prepared, you should strike first and fight quickly, and if you don't know the rules, avoid the battle and flee as soon as possible." ”

The blue-haired girl looked stunned and denied: "Of course the master is not asking about this... If there is no danger of life, you should make up for your shortcomings, if you are prepared, you should think more about attacking methods and challenge the limit, and if you meet the enemy, you should change your means and explore combinations. ”

The man in front of them, who was nearly forty years old, sighed again: "Then what happened to you just now?"

He looked at the fiery red-haired girl first: "Cornelia, you don't use the magic seal well, so you don't dare to use the magic seal in actual combat, and even in the face of the dire wolf that can be easily killed, you'd rather run a few more steps to solve it with the red chain sword you are good at." You are very talented and free to use the Red Chain Sword, and the way you play cannot be said to be incorrect, but it is better to use slow printing and reprinting to restrain this fragile dire wolf, and just quickly replenish the knife. If you don't practice your Dharma Seal all the time, when the battle situation is complicated and the enemy turns to fire you, the weak enemy can pose a great threat to you. ”

He looked at the blue-haired girl who didn't dare to look at him with her eyes open, "Helena, I think you know your situation very well. You can quickly adapt to complex situations, and it is good to use the method to solve the problem alternately. But what if you don't approach the enemy without being completely sure, what should you do when you encounter a powerful monster that doesn't work obviously. Don't forget that the sigil is just a simple way to use spells, and we don't learn them in depth, but they are just used to expand our means of warfare. If you're really into sorcery, you should become an apprentice magician. ”

After being blamed by Finn, both girls slowly lowered their heads.

Finn put his hands on their heads and gently soothed, "Okay, okay, it's hard work for you." In these years, even being a scholar has to fight with your life to learn to fight, which is also a little difficult for you. When you're out of the forest, you take the elk's head and ask for a bounty, and ask the deceitful dead witch to borrow a bathtub to wash and bathe you. I'll just take a wash here and walk around to see if there are any other problems. ”

He drew his sword from his waist with his backhand, and with a flash of white shadow, the elk monster's head rolled to the ground. The two reinvigorated female apprentices picked up the bounty and followed Finn out of the forest.

When the two female apprentices were drifting apart, he turned back to the forest, activated his dim vision and enhanced perception, and made a rough survey of the woods, and finally returned to the stream to remove his clothes and washed the blood stains with water.

"Alas... If it's true that some says, sighing and not having some lifespan, I guess I will hang up when I am still in the fetus. But anyway, it's best to never live, and the next best is to die immediately. Hmph, it's really a bit crooked. Finn sighed as he washed, "I really want to have some talented male apprentices, who are always regarded as unscrupulous...... Damn, even the old witch talked about this, if she hadn't said that there was really an extraordinary extract of essentia that could be sold to me this time, I wouldn't have come to do this thing, and I wouldn't be a bitter witcher......"

The middle-aged man, with his back combed and his blond hair mixed with a large amount of milky white hair, chattered and cleaned himself up a little by the stream, and went to the edge of the village to fetch his little pony. Two female apprentices, who were about fifteen years old, had been waiting for him for a long time.

On the way back to Chahe Town, the two female apprentices still ask this and that from time to time, and seem to be very interested in the witches who live in the small village. Finn didn't want to tell them more about the things that the witches secretly did to steal chickens and dogs or be extremely vicious, so he picked on the things they usually helped the villagers in exchange for living materials and rewards, and most of the witches would stay next to some forests with valuable herbs or precious beasts for up to a year or two, digging up some valuable materials, and then going back to their strongholds, witch towers and other places.

But even so, Fein had to mention a few words: "But... Witches are not as thorough in magic as magicians like mages and wizards, not as comprehensive in herbs as botanists like pharmacists and herbaries, and not as thoroughly as hunters and foresters in animals, but they have unique insights on exotic things such as animals and plants with extraordinary properties that no one else can do. ”

Cornelia looked curious: "Why, don't the wizards with their own witch towers and plantations have people who specialize in studying these strange things?

"Witchers are just looking for materials for spell casting, and rarely directly experiment with or take supernatural objects, and demon hunters are tired of surviving and studying the way to slay demons, although they have become monsters taboo by ordinary people through trials by taking a small amount of supernatural things, but they also fulfill their duties, only use their basic power to strengthen themselves, and are forced to swear to eliminate monsters, they are very vigilant against this power from extraordinary things, and will not come into contact with it too much. ”

Helena pondered Finn's words: "In other words, a person who confronts the powers of transcendent objects, studies their inner secrets, uses them for analytical research, and even takes them to change himself is called a witch, right?"

Fein wanted to sigh again, but it exceeded the rule he had set for himself not to sigh more than a hundred times a day, so he had to give up. Sometimes his apprentice will be inexplicably sensitive in something he doesn't want to know, and he is really helpless.

Seeing them walk to the road between the hills and mountains, Finn closed his eyes. Although the road is smooth and easy to walk, there are some bandits and bandits lurking from time to time. He couldn't figure out what kind of point of view these bandits were using to set up ambushes in inaccessible places, but he didn't intend to figure it out, but he just greatly enhanced his ears' ability to perceive and listen to whether there was anyone hiding around the countless corners they were about to go.

He shifted the subject away from witches: "That's right. But in any case, whether it is taken directly or used as a spell material, I am afraid that it is not the right way to use the power of these extraordinary objects. Judging from the results, it can be said to a large extent that the correct way to use strange objects is the various secret rituals that we are studying. Phenomena that can be triggered by extraordinary objects and secret rituals are often event-level or even catastrophic. We work hard to make sure that these extraordinary objects are properly cared for or used properly......"

Cornelia turned to ask, "Master, did that happen when the giant moon turned green?"

"The Rotten Moon is no small incident, and it often means that the outer gods are trying to invade a well-guarded place on a large scale, fighting for the supernatural things that exist there. Not to mention villages, towns, castles, and big cities can be easily attacked. Often, until the outer gods have achieved their purpose, or the supernatural has left the place, various monsters will invade. ”

Helena also asked, but her voice trembled a little: "That... Wei Yue turned red, like a smiling face, what kind of incident is it?"

Finn couldn't help frowning, what did the dead witch say to the two of them, did she want to scare them away from his side?

He continued: "That's even more outrageous. If the Rotten Moon may have been caused by the Kuroshio, it is only possible that Akatsuki has deliberately summoned some of the Old Gods whose names I can't tell you to descend, intending to sacrifice the bloody Old God with a powerful bloodline, strengthen the bond between them, and maybe even bestow the power of this evil bloodline on the Evil Charmer.

"But don't be afraid, don't listen to that dead witch scare you, we are still a long way from the corrupted land of the Black Tide, and you two don't have any divine blood. These two events will not find our heads. ”

"But, but......" Cornelia's voice as she swallowed her saliva was clear to Finn, "what if the red moon and the rotten moon hung in the sky at the same time?"

"Huh!?" Finn snapped his eyes open, unable to control himself, and looked at the two unclean moons in the sky.

The two female apprentices trembled and hugged him: "This is terrible!"

"Shit!" Finn snapped as he stepped back, pinching the spell with his left hand and slamming it on himself.

In his eyes, the skin and muscles of the two female apprentices were dissolved and peeled off in the moonlight, and then only some bones and organs were left in between, which was extremely terrifying. Their hands stretched out, and a shadow attached to them, turning into two dark claws.

As soon as Finn drew his sword, he slashed the two phantom demons without any further delay. He swept away, and the two moons had risen to the sky in the blink of an eye!

How could such a complete and powerful event come again? I'm afraid it didn't take so many hours to go all at once! Cornelia and Helena are probably ......

He gritted his teeth, took out a rune from the inner pocket of his clothes, and slapped it on the pony who was drooling in place.

When the pony took the form of a tall horse, Finn mounted his horse and galloped towards the town of Fork River, formerly known as Koblenz.